It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

An initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.

In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.

When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.